I feel it's worsened since I started keeping the list, too. Or maybe I just wasn't in the relevant fandom spaces in 2001 to see how bad it had already gotten.
No, it really wasn't then, not that I could see, either. There was plenty of w*nk as ever, but not that specific kind as a big thing. It seems to be partly to do with sites that work by global tagging - much harder to stay in your own fandom lanes; much easier for people to get annoyed and then to justify that annoyance & acting on it with morality. (But only bad people would ship that/like a villain etc.) I suppose when the next type of site comes along, we'll have a different type of screaming at each other again, but I suspect as long as we have the internet and fandom, we'll have the screaming). Yay?
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No, it really wasn't then, not that I could see, either. There was plenty of w*nk as ever, but not that specific kind as a big thing. It seems to be partly to do with sites that work by global tagging - much harder to stay in your own fandom lanes; much easier for people to get annoyed and then to justify that annoyance & acting on it with morality. (But only bad people would ship that/like a villain etc.) I suppose when the next type of site comes along, we'll have a different type of screaming at each other again, but I suspect as long as we have the internet and fandom, we'll have the screaming). Yay?